eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. To say that the year has been a whirlwind is an understatement.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2017

At The Shipley School, we’ve embraced how technology can aid in the learning process for all of our students, particularly in our Middle School (grades 6-8) and Upper School (grades 9-12) classrooms. Long before our students had laptops in hand, we began working with our Middle School and Upper School teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the shadow of Apple Computer’s 1 Infinite Loop headquarters, an initiative requiring public middle schoolers to use iPads in class and at home has spawned a growing battle over education in the digital age. District officials and many teachers tout the iPads as innovative learning tools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Kids CoLab helps students target areas of need, build 21st-century skills with hands-on and digital learning. Nine New Jersey elementary middle school students are joining forces with Pearson designers and developers to help the company design features for digital learning solutions.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

Use the program as an intervention tool. Last year, our county’s eight middle schools all had a reading skills and strategies class where everyone used our literacy platform. As the class kicked off, people kept coming back to me asking why our students were doing better than some of the other schools.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I currently serve as a digital integration specialist for South Carolinas Anderson School District Five.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The Tennessee STEM Innovation Network, through legislative support, is making a supplemental STEM career awareness curriculum available at no cost to all middle schools in the state. In the first month, over 25 percent of middle schools in Tennessee have begun the process of using Learning Blade to supplement STEM activities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For example, if you give a middle school student a project to create their own Bluetooth speaker that plays music from a phone, they experience real-world problems. What if they insert the wires incorrectly or realize there’s a missing piece of hardware?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Generously funded by MathWorks , each of the YES Middle School units is accompanied by two computer science modules that demonstrate how computational thinking approaches and tools can facilitate engineering problem solving.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

Our students, particularly those in middle school, love comic and graphic books,” said Dawn Roberts, Media Specialist at Northeastern Utah Educational Services. Usage data is available to authorized educators in a secure student reading dashboard. Designed for busy educators and content-hungry students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process. For example, in a middle school science class, I rely on the Video Quiz feature to assess understanding of the water cycle. This helps ensure that students stay engaged and allows me to adjust instruction on the spot.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

One middle school social studies teacher from Pennsylvania made his decision to make the leap to a corporate role after breaking up fights in the hallways became a near-daily activity. The National Education Association recently reported that 90 percent of teachers surveyed expressed burnout as a serious concern.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

Vadim wanted to create enough curriculum games so they would be effective daily learning tools in schools. I had one big question: Would using games as a primary learning tool actually improve my students’ performance? This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

One of my challenges as a music teacher is finding learning tools that inspire and motivate my students and engage them musically, regardless of their individual abilities. Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

Their Pennsylvania school district, Haverford, consistently places among the top districts in our state. Their middle school benefits from stable funding, high-quality teachers, and a strong IT department, all leading to discussions about AI in their sixth grade classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School (CCRMS) in East Palo Alto is named after the famed Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist. This tribute is fitting, given that the majority of the school’s students identify as Hispanic or Latinx. Schools & Groups | STEM Kits for Students. More from KiwiCo.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Each area feeds into one comprehensive high school with a variety of Career and Technical Education STEM/STEAM pathways including computer science, engineering, environmental science, health science, and manufacturing and construction. In addition, Saghalie Middle School and the TAF Academy will merge to become TAF@Saghalie.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Moore: We are a small suburban school district (approximately 2400 students in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school) located in Enola, PA that started the school year completely online. Prior to OTIS, how was your district handling PD?

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“There are many kinds of assessments that educators use in the classroom—what makes them ‘formative’ is when the information from the assessment is used to adapt the instructional approach to meet students’ learning needs.”. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms!

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Both groups were visiting Pittsburgh to learn about our network and how we all work together. EDTECH: How did VR first get on your radar as a possible learning tool? Our goal was to explore VR and see how we might use it to improve learning. Perhaps there’s something in our three rivers?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

When I was a middle school teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District, I looked longingly at the work of sales reps and trainers at edtech companies. In spite of this new edtech landscape and the countless new SISs, LMSs, devices and online learning tools, some challenges of teaching with tech from the aughts persist.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Now, teachers teach to a variety of learning styles, differentiate learning for our students with twice-weekly Response to Intervention time and give opportunities for student collaboration—such as STEM projects and our Spark literary and visual arts magazine. And this past year two of those schools came off the list!

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

Education expert Matthew Lynch notes on his blog “The Tech Edvocate,” that data analytics tools in the classroom will also be increasingly used as a way for students to track their own achievement. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Science Teacher, Archbishop Hoban High School and Member, Vernier Trendsetter Community As we look towards the 2024-2025 school year, there’s a pressing need to integrate career exploration and employability skills into core academic subjects, starting as early as middle school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

When put into context for educational technology, interoperability means that all of the digital content, tools, and resources used by teachers and students work well together. Lincoln teaches seventh grade at a diverse middle school. Consider this example: Ms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

Intended for students ages 6-11 and developed by teachers, it provides a free online learning tool designed to help students broaden their worldview through meaningful interactions with peers across the globe. There are several suggestions here but one that’s always a good start is the popular Banzai.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Because digital devices and online environments can simultaneously be transformatively empowering and maddeningly disruptive, the work of integrating digital learning tools into schools is usually difficult and complex. Fears about digital learning tools are especially tricky because they’re primarily emotional, not logical.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

They learn about the beauty industry and the local theatre through field trips and hands-on disciplinary work. Down the road at Okoboji Middle School , students learn about coding, robotics, computer-aided drafting, and 3D design in their Designing for the Future and Robots: Let the Races Begin projects.

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Teach Your Kids

MARCH 19, 2025

If you believe in the future of modular, personalized education, we invite you to support our mission by joining our WeFunder campaign and helping us expand access to the learning tools families need most. Invest in Modulo

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a curriculum specialist in Houston, Hawkins combats math anxiety in the classroom by helping to demystify the concepts for teachers, and taking the subject off the page and bringing it to life for students (occasionally using chocolate chip cookies as a convenient learning tool). I was basically the face of middle school math.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In conversations, several educators used a phrase to describe something else they look for in LMSs, and that’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI). Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

In the coming year, we will continue to see a growing number of these partnerships as well as a growing commitment to career readiness programs at the high school level which will empower students to pursue college or meaningful careers upon graduation.

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